This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General > Basic Gk > General Knowledge โ Quiz 1165 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books General Knowledge Quiz 1165 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who directed the 1975 film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" ? A) Brian De Palma. B) Martin Scorsese. C) Sidney Lumet. D) Miloลก Forman. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Miloลก Forman. 2. What was the title of Gordon Ramsay's 2006 autobiography? A) Cook? Moi?. B) The Gay Gordons. C) Ramsay Street. D) Humble Pie. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humble Pie. 3. A binnacle is the name for the surround of what item found on a ship? A) Marlinspike. B) Capstan. C) Windlass. D) Compass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compass. 4. Which of these is a system of weights and measures? A) Ruling. B) Majestic. C) Empirical. D) Imperial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Imperial. 5. If someone is ostracised by the rest of their social group, where are they said to have been sent to? A) Bangor. B) Coventry. C) Birmingham. D) Pittsburg. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coventry. 6. Hussars is a word applied to what type of troops? A) Engineers. B) Artillery. C) Infantry. D) Cavalry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cavalry. 7. Friar Tuck is the associate of which legendary English figure? A) Robin Hood. B) The Black Prince. C) Richard the Lionheart. D) St George. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robin Hood. 8. What are Mammoth, Whistler, Bansko, Afriski, Niseko, and Cardrona? A) Hop beers. B) Watercolour paintings. C) Ski resorts. D) Species of moth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ski resorts. 9. What is bagasse? A) Dry pulpy fibrous matter remaining after sugarcane or sorghum stalks are crushed. B) Dough used to prepare baguettes. C) Cut pattern pieces for small bags. D) Billiards-derived indoor table game. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dry pulpy fibrous matter remaining after sugarcane or sorghum stalks are crushed. 10. Kobo, Nook and Onyx are brands of what? A) E-Reader. B) Writing implement. C) Printer. D) USB stick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) E-Reader. 11. Sergeant Cuff features as a detective in which of these? A) A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Arthur Conan Doyle. B) The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)y Edgar Allan Poe. C) The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins. D) Clouds of Witness (1926) by Dorothy Sayers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins. 12. What is Arrow's impossibility theorem? A) A social-choice paradox illustrating the flaws of ranked voting systems. B) Analysis of the system of common-pool resources. C) The theory of non-cooperative games. D) The theory of markets with asymmetric information. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A social-choice paradox illustrating the flaws of ranked voting systems. 13. 18th century French adventuress Marie du Barry was mistress to Louis XV from 1769 until banished to the country in 1774. How did she die after she returned from a trip to England to sell her jewels in 1793? A) She fell out of the basket during a balloon trip. B) She was blown up. C) She was eaten by rats. D) She was guillotined. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She was guillotined. 14. Whose famous books include "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex", "The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals", '' The Power of Movement in Plants" and "The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms" ? A) Charles Darwin. B) Dr Benjamin Spock. C) Sir Joseph Banks. D) Albert Einstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charles Darwin. 15. Why was Australian triple jumper Ian Campbell controversially declared to have fouled during a jump in the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics which would have won him the gold medal? A) Causing disturbance to opposing athletes. B) For scraping his foot against the ground. C) Making an obscene bras d'honneur gesture to the second placed in the event. D) For stamping. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) For scraping his foot against the ground. 16. Vodka is the principal alcoholic content of which of these cocktails? A) Screwdriver. B) Manhattan. C) Grasshopper. D) Daiquiri. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Screwdriver. 17. Which 20th century novelist wrote "The Quiet American", "Stamboul Train", "Brighton Rock" and "The Power And The Glory" ? A) Rudyard Kipling. B) Graham Greene. C) Charles Kingsley. D) Evelyn Waugh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Graham Greene. 18. Which legendary character is the subject of musical settings of his adventures, notably by Purcell, Glรผck and Mozart? A) Flick the Little Fire Engine. B) Don Juan. C) The Barber of Seville. D) Barry Manilow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Don Juan. 19. Which of these flags does not have a crescent moon? A) Saudi Arabia. B) Turkey. C) Pakistan. D) Tunisia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Saudi Arabia. 20. With what is the story of the rape of the Sabine women associated? A) Star Wars. B) Rome's conquest of Egypt. C) A disagreement between Louisiana and Texas. D) The founding of Rome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The founding of Rome. โ PreviousNext โRelated QuizzesGeneral QuizzesGeneral Knowledge Quiz 1General Knowledge Quiz 2General Knowledge Quiz 3General Knowledge Quiz 4General Knowledge Quiz 5General Knowledge Quiz 6General Knowledge Quiz 7General Knowledge Quiz 8General Knowledge Quiz 9 ๐ Back to Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books